At a time when we hoped to recieve mony from you & thought it not unreasonable to expect it, we were greatly disappointed in getting an argumentative letter in which you endeavor to prove that we cannot legally call upon you for payment of any sum until some future period. The ground upon which you seem solely to rely is that for want of a deed, you have not been legally in possession of the land. We do not understand you to deny but that you have had possession by yourself or your tenants & that you alone have had the entire control over the property. In equity therefore as well as in law you are bound to pay according to the terms of Sale, which secured your Sanction at the time & were subscribed by you.

     When you purchased, you knew as indeed yr letter admits that a <co>nveyance could not be made in any short time; yet you then perceived no objection to agreeing to pay the mony at the stipulated periods. It will appear by our correspondence that you alone have prevented the deed from having been long since delivered, from whence it is clearly to be inferred that you have never until the present moment thought a conveyance important to your interest.

     We do not think ourselves at liberty to accede to any of your proposals, and as we consider your determination not to pay but upon the terms mentioned in your letter as definitively expressed, we must in duty to those legatees who have recieved nothing submit to the harmful task of <proc>eeding immediately in Chancery agst the land in the same manner as if a mortgage had been executed. This money when collected is intended to be divided amongst those legatees who yet remain to be paid. We are Dr Sir Yr mo. ob. Sert